Search FNL grants since 1931

Almost 3000 items: title deeds to individual purchases, as well as settlements and papers from lands in other counties. Related families deeds also appear: the Wickhams, Garrards, Tyrwhitts and Stradlings

Presented by David Hall; the preface to this edition is Fitzgeralds first publication in book form

The deeds centre on Richard Tottell and Richard Grafton his brother-in-law and refer to land transactions in Buckinghamshire

Presented by Mrs Robson-Scott together with some 200 other volumes of major German authors ranging from Klopstock and Lichtenberg to Kafka and Benn. Includes large numbers of works by German expressionists including Georg Heym, Trakl and Jakob von Hoddis

Over 400 pre-Dissolution charters and deeds, including the foundation charter granted by Thurstan Archbishop of York in 1132. Collection follows the changing fortunes and ownership of the lands down to the late 18th century, by which time it was owned by Lord Grantham ambassador in Madrid.

Besides the Duke, the letters were addressed to the Bishop of Norwich, the Mayor and several gentlemen appointing them Commissioners to decide the quantity of arms and armour to be maintained by the City for its defence

1500 documents in this collection date from before 1550 with much topographical information and too much [sic] about the medieval glass industry in Staffordshire.

Letters to and from members of this important Bristol Merchant family, engaged in the manufacture of porcelain.

Includes a decorated chart of the ships tracks, views of Prince Ruperts Bay from Mount Alleyn and several panoramas of the English coast line.

One of the projected series of 34 fascicles. The 743 copper plates engraved from drawings by Sydney Parkinson of the plants collected by Banks on his voyage round the world 1768 - 1771 with Captain Cook. The plates, which are housed at British Library had never before been printed in colour